This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it. — Vine Deloria Jr American indian Copy Share Image
Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was… — Vine Deloria Jr Cavalry Copy Share Image
Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make? — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical. — Vine Deloria Jr American society Copy Share Image
The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all… — Vine Deloria Jr Future Copy Share Image
These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
“Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.” — Vine Deloria Jr Native american wisdom Copy Share Image
But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Not only did secular scientists rout the Christian fundamentalists, they placed themselves in the posture of knowing more, on the basis of… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land -… — Vine Deloria Jr Accusation Copy Share Image
The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white… — Vine Deloria Jr Academic Copy Share Image
As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Culture, as Indian people understood it, was basically a lifestyle by which a people acted. It was self-expression, but not a conscious… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have… — Vine Deloria Jr Collision Copy Share Image
Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
If the tribal peoples actually represented Western origins at a much earlier time, it was exceedingly valuable that they should be studied… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the… — Vine Deloria Jr Abstraction Copy Share Image
Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives… — Vine Deloria Jr Ancestor Copy Share Image
Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but… — Vine Deloria Jr Allies Copy Share Image
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. — Vine Deloria Jr Character Copy Share Image
Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours. — Vine Deloria Jr America Copy Share Image
Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the… — Vine Deloria Jr America Copy Share Image
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